Serial Rapist Pleads Guilty to 2 Murders After Chewed Gum Links DNA to Crimes Mitchell A. Gaff, 68, acknowledged killing two women who were sexually assaulted before being found dead in their Washington State apartments in the 1980s.

A Washington State man pleaded guilty last week to murder in two 1980s cold case homicides after undercover investigators pretending to sell chewing gum obtained DNA that tied him to both crimes, according to court documents. nyti.ms/4vGWL3s

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Extends U.S.-Iran Cease-fire The pause in hostilities had been set to expire within hours. The president said Pakistan, which is trying to mediate an end to the war, requested he hold off any attacks.

Breaking News: President Trump said he was extending the cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran indefinitely. It had been due to expire within hours.

Here’s what happens when you give salmon cocaine It turns out that salmon exposed to cocaine through water pollution do a lot of swimming—which may not be a good thing

Headline of the day. Here’s what happens when you give salmon cocaine

The Minds Behind Netflix's Most Underrated Show Are Making a Freaky New Horror Series 'Dark' and '1899' fans, get ready for another very spooky very German series.

I don’t agree that DARK was underrated—I think it was excellent. I’m interested to see what they’re doing next.

Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

A fascinating look at the evolution of Sherlock Holmes (and the rights to tell Holmes stories!) by @charliejane.bsky.social - buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Iran War Live Updates: Uncertainty Surrounds U.S.-Iran Talks as Cease-Fire Nears End The vice president’s trip to Pakistan is on hold because Tehran failed to respond to American negotiating positions, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation said. But it could be back on at a moment’s notice.

Breaking News: Vice President JD Vance’s Pakistan trip is on hold after Iran failed to respond to American positions, a U.S. official said. Iran said it had not yet decided whether to resume talks with the U.S.

Florida Democrat Resigns From Congress 20 Minutes Before Expulsion Vote Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, had been charged with stealing $5 million in federal funds. The House Ethics Committee was to take up her case Tuesday.

Breaking News: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat charged with stealing $5 million from FEMA, resigned 20 minutes before an expulsion vote.

As part of The Summer of Stephen King series, River Oaks Theatre will show PET SEMATARY on June 10 at 6 pm, followed by a discussion with @ericvespe.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @comptonwrites.bsky.social and me. The panel will be moderated by Brazons Bookstore's Keaton Patterson.

Tim Cook to step down as CEO of Apple: ‘the greatest privilege of my life’ Cook, who will assume the role of executive chairman, will be succeeded by John Ternus as CEO on 1 September Apple announced Monday that it had named a replacement for Tim Cook as CEO, with head of hardware engineering John Ternus to succeed him. “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company. I love Apple with all of my being,” Cook said in a press release. Continue reading...

Tim Cook to step down as CEO of Apple: ‘the greatest privilege of my life’

Canadian Tourist Is Shot Dead at Mexico’s Teotihuacán Pyramids, Officials Say

Breaking News: A tourist was shot dead and several other people were wounded, the authorities said, when a gunman opened fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids.

London, we've released a few more reserved tickets to this documentary screening! Two showings, April 21 and 22. It's free and hosted by Innocence Project London, which works to free the wrongly convicted in the UK. Please reserve your tickets ASAP. I'll be doing Q&A after the screenings.

Popular Brazilian influencer confirmed as athlete who died at Ironman Texas bit.ly/48KABU9

Banned from the radio after Princess Diana died: how Levellers made What a Beautiful Day ‘Its release seemed timely as the Tories had just left office. But then Diana died and all cheerful songs were taken straight off the radio. Boom! It disappeared’

Banned from the radio after Princess Diana died: how Levellers made What a Beautiful Day

I am at FULL mwahaha today

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

and people say nothing good ever happens on monday (congrats @bencollins.bsky.social + team!) 🎁 link

Practical Magic 2 | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by Warner Bros.

Please be good

(honestly don't care if it's not "good," the first one falls flat - let's be honest - in the third act and I love it with my whole heart). My soul needs this sequel 🖤
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This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

Don Schlitz, Prolific Writer of Country Music Hits, Dies at 73 He won a Grammy for the Kenny Rogers song “The Gambler,” and also wrote for Randy Travis, the Judds and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Don Schlitz, the prodigious songwriter whose credits include Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler,” Randy Travis’s “On the Other Hand” and many other chart-topping country hits, most of them from the 1980s and ’90s, died on Thursday. He was 73.

Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’ The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionaires

Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.

"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"

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Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

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Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed The Plaza Prizes offered 10 awards in 2025 but some judges say they were not paid, while a number of winners hit back over AI accusations A competition for new writers that promised a £20,000 prize fund appears to have shut down, leaving winners and judges, including a Booker prize-winning novelist, out of pocket. Established in 2022, the Plaza Prizes last year offered 10 awards that were judged by the “finest poets and writers in the world”. Continue reading...

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time A previously unknown verse attributed to Federico García Lorca has been discovered 93 years after the celebrated Spanish poet and playwright is believed to have jotted it on the back of one of his manuscripts. Lorca is thought to have written the eight-line poem in 1933 while working on the collection Diván del Tamarit, a homage to the Arab poets of his native Granada. Continue reading...

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written

Iran War Live Updates: Iran’s Military Says It Has Reimposed ‘Strict Control’ of Strait of Hormuz The military said it would keep the vital waterway under its control until the U.S. ended its blockade of Iranian ports. The statement added to the uncertainty over access to the strait.

Breaking News: Iran’s military said it had reimposed “strict control” over the Strait of Hormuz, adding to uncertainty over access to the waterway.

Israel-Lebanon Live Updates: Thousands Try to Head Home After Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia Israeli forces are battling in Lebanon, avoided mention of the 10-day cease-fire but appeared to be adhering to it. A truce could remove an obstacle in U.S.-Iran peace talks.

Breaking News: The Strait of Hormuz is fully open for shipping after the Israel-Lebanon cease-fire, Iran said, sending global oil prices falling.

Asif Kapadia to direct final chapter of influential ITV documentary series Up 70 Up to conclude long-running show following group of children into adulthood, revisiting them every seven years Asif Kapadia will bring the long-running and influential ITV documentary series Up to an end, with a concluding instalment that will air later this year. The series, which began in 1964, was voted the most influential UK TV show of the last 50 years in 2024, followed a group of children from infancy via their teen years to adulthood, and now revisits them as they approach old age. Continue reading...

Asif Kapadia to direct final chapter of influential ITV documentary series Up

Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.

Breaking News: In a win for oil companies, the Supreme Court allowed environmental lawsuits in Louisiana to move to friendlier federal courts as companies, like Chevron and Exxon Mobil, battle with the state over who should pay for coastal erosion.